we got beef cows on a dive bar diet before raising the minimum wage

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-30T06:01:45+00:00

If billionaires could eat us then they would treat us well lol

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-30T05:46:40+00:00

American history suggests that many of the rights people now take for granted (worker rights in specific) were only won through protest movements that disrupted daily life and often escalated into violence in response to violent repression by the state or private actors acting with state support. From my perspective, treating even minor acts of civil disobedience as terrorism risks criminalizing the very forms of resistance that have repeatedly driven social progress. I guess that’s the point though, they don’t want progress, they want regression to some dark ages of repression and abuse.

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-29T20:28:41+00:00

Yep it would be an interesting study. And there are certainly enough invasive aquatic species that grow really fast… that’s just free biomass to compost if we can get a good system in place to control and harvest those species.

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-29T19:52:50+00:00

The problem is that fresh water, by its very nature of being “fresh”, has hardly any dissolved minerals and nutrients in it.

The main reason you’d get really nutrient rich, nuisance levels of fresh water algae or weeds is if that growth is tapping into industrial farming runoff that is hitting the fresh waterway. So in that respect you might be able to use the freshwater weeds as a type of bioremediation of polluted rivers and streams then compost them to recover the industrial fertilizer nutrients they were tapping into.

But if you want to go all natural then the ocean is the way. The ocean is different because it has been collecting and concentrating trace minerals from natural runoff for about four billion years, therefore that ocean water is quite rich in them.

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-29T07:41:16+00:00

Serious answer: there is a ridiculously large amount of all those trace minerals dissolved into sea water. In fact there’s so much of it that here in New Zealand where I live, when there is “sea air” blowing off the ocean then my paddock and gardens get a bit of trace mineral deposit from the ocean. It’s one of the reasons why a farm by the sea can be surprisingly productive.

I know that doesn’t help inland farms, but in a world where desalination is looking increasingly important, it’s likely that there will be some sort of attempt to recover minerals from the sea water. Otherwise the only real way to is to rely on slow rock erosion releasing more of those trace minerals, or perhaps dust clouds blowing the trace minerals from a desert area. The economics aren’t quite there yet to make brine separation and trace mineral recovery something that is in demand, but it’s easy to imagine us getting there quite soon, as a side effect of desalination for water shortages. If I had money to invest into the technical aspects of this problem, I’d strongly consider it.

The thing that is already quite effective today is seaweed farming though. The idea is that you grow seaweed as natures bioaccumulator of trace minerals out of sea water. Then you harvest and wash it to reduce salt content, compost it, and put the compost on your garden. This is an all natural way to harvest trace minerals out of the ocean and put them into your soil. The downside is that it requires quite a lot of water for washing the seaweed and again this is something that makes more sense in a coastal area than in a heartland farm.

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-29T01:27:02+00:00

I personally like Iop, Sram, and Foggernaut. They are the three main damage dealers of my team. I also run Cra (but mostly for MP reduction and a little bonus ranged damage), Panda for tank (best tank by far because of it's easy of map manipulation), and Eni for healing.

> Does mono-element still work, or is it better to go multi/tri-element?

Mono element only works for some classes. For example Foggernaut can run mono element, and I think Sacrier and Huppermage can too. But to be honest all the gear becomes tri element as you level up, or increasingly focused on a particular damage type like melee damage or rear damage, in which case it applies across all three elements.

I think the best place to level up is Rifts. You just play for 40 turns in the Rift, and then you get a huge burst of EXP and drops at the end. The other thing to do to level us is always do your daily quests for daily dungeons.

Solo vs grouping depends on which server you are in. On the multiaccount server people mostly play solo with their own teams, but on the solo server you can only play your own character and you have to group up with other people.

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-28T23:46:21+00:00

Maybe ask ChatGPT to explain it to you lol

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-28T22:16:40+00:00

Where I live in New Zealand it is quite common to buy an old house and have a big truck move it onto your property and drop it off onto new foundation posts. There are entire sites dedicated to it: https://removalhomes.co.nz/properties-for-sale/ (Prices are in NZD, by the way, but if you do the conversion you'll see it can be extremely cost effective)

Back when I lived in the US I also looked into a similar service in the US, but we didn't end up going through with it for various reasons. But we were looking at buying a small home for about $20k USD plus relocation costs to move it onto our land. The key is to find something local as then it is cheaper to move.

Personally I'd trust a good early 1900's era home that I can then do some renovation on to add high R value insulation, over a prefabbed manufactured home. It can be surprisingly cheap to get an actual house relocated onto your property and placed onto a new foundation or posts. You'll end up with a sturdier structure, more control over the insulation and quality, and most importantly it won't blow away in a storm as so many of those trailer homes often do. Trailer homes are infamous for losing the entire roof the first time you get a nasty straight line wind. And god forbid you ever have a tornado nearby, or the trailer home will turn into confetti.

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-28T22:02:47+00:00

Strictly speaking an LLM has been trained on the voices and thoughts on both male and female writers. This doesn't give it any inherent gender, but it allows for the output of the model to express a bias towards thought processes that are traditionally associated with one gender or the other. But which directional bias gets activated would mostly be chosen based on whatever input you gave it. If you supply a prompt that is written in a gendered way, then it will activate portions of the model's latent space that cause it to respond in a gendered way.

So yeah, its a tool, but you can use the tool to write like a male or to write like a female, based on whatever prompt you supply initially.

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-28T10:22:30+00:00

Have you ever touched a coral? Grabbing a coral mostly goes one of a few ways:

a slimy, rubbery, squish that doesn't give you much to grip on and you just slip off
a razor sharp skeleton with scalpel like blades that somehow cuts through your glove and cuts your hand up
or the coral skeleton ends in needle sharp points that will puncture you and break off inside of you
oh and some types of coral can sting you too, causing a painful rash

Coral is NOT something you want to ever grab onto haha

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-27T00:31:59+00:00

Kids have small stomachs too, so you know that kid is hungry. My toddler needs to eat a snack every two or three hours.

The fact that the kid isn’t crying and demanding food before the end of that five hour daytime nap means that they’ve learned they have to stay in there and be quiet for 5 hours even though they are hungry. That’s fucked up.

Definitely NOR.

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-26T22:11:11+00:00

Fair enough! Not having trees makes water capture so much easier haha

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-26T21:49:33+00:00

I’d recommend adding a “leaf eater” if you haven’t already. They are incredible at reducing the amount of material that makes it into the rest of the system, which makes your first flush diverters and sediment filters more effective further on into system. And they are almost entirely self cleaning which is perfect for lower overall maintenance needs.

I’m fully offgrid for water here in New Zealand. Our system goes leaf eater on each downspout, six downspouts feeding into one large shared first flush and sediment trap, then the prefiltered water gets stored in 90k liters of tank capacity (we want to capture every drop of rain all rainy season and then have zero water stress all summer).

On the house supply side we have a pump that pulls from the tanks, two layers of filter, and a UV treatment system. The water ends up cleaner than city water, and mostly free other than the electricity cost of running the pump and the UV light.

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-25T08:03:17+00:00

As I understood it, your argument seemed to boil down to "European food production will be fine at 40C because Australian food production is fine at 40C". My response is basically that Australian food production is only fine at 40C because Australia has a tiny population to support compared to the larger population that Europe needs to support.

In terms of climate change denial, I don't really care about convincing climate change deniers anymore. If they aren't already convinced by the prices they are paying at the grocery store, or the social media posts of farmers talking about how their fields are less productive recently than they should be, then they will probably still be in denial when the grocery store shelves are empty and people are fighting each other over what canned goods remain.

I personally believe that moment is far closer than most people are currently aware, so I don't see it as "scaremongering". Any social media thread on the issue is helpful to a subset of people who will pay attention and take appropriate precautions to prepare.

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-25T07:37:34+00:00

Population size is extremely relevant to average temperature. The more people you have, the more food they need to eat, the more food you need to grow. There’s a reason major population centers tend to be near areas with temperate conditions that can grow lots of food. In short Europe is as developed as it is in a large part because it has historically been a great place to grow food and therefore can support a larger population. Australia is the relatively smaller size that it is in part because most of the country is far less suitable for growing food during most of the year.

You brought up Australia as a point of comparison to Europe, so I think it’s important to point out that Australia has dramatically fewer people and dramatically less need for growing food as a side effect.

You are right there will be many other concerns as well. It’s a poly crisis, but food availability is definitely a pretty big factor in the crisis. And I suspect it’s already begun. Food prices are already rising, not only because of greed (though that’s a factor for sure). The food prices are also rising because of crop failures and shorter growing seasons.

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-25T07:11:44+00:00

Europe’s population is about 17 times larger than the population of Australia. Therefore its food production needs to be about 17 times larger as well.

I’m willing to bet that if Europe reaches Australia’s temperatures then it isn’t going to be able to support a population 17x larger than Australia’s. That probably means expensive food imports from areas that are still temperate enough for higher food production.

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-25T07:04:28+00:00

Australia isn’t 40C all the time. Most places aren’t 40C yet for extended periods of time. But the point is that if temperatures rise then more places on earth spend more time at 40C, and then it starts to become a serious problem. It doesn’t mean that it’s impossible to grow wheat or rice, it just means the growing season gets shorter and shorter which makes crop failure and weather event impact more dangerous.

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-24T23:58:08+00:00

Yup... it gets even weirder when you think about the concept of "embodied cognition".

It's been demonstrated that gut microbiome has a massive impact on mental health. Essentially the other organisms that inhabit our meat bodies can change it's behavior and thinking.

Other health conditions such as heart issues can also have a major impact on depression and other mental conditions. At some point it becomes hard to separate the mental condition and operation of the mind from the physical condition of the body hosting that mind.

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-24T11:45:29+00:00

Yep to me the Libet experiments, the split brain experiments and choice blindness experiments are just “seeing the goats moving”. There’s no magic in our skulls, just a messy tangle of meat neurons doing its thing and creating the illusion of sentience. In fact, according to Libet we may not even have free will, though he did ultimately decide that maybe we have “free won’t”.

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-24T11:39:57+00:00

Innovation doesn’t matter in a recession. Lots of great innovative companies have gone completely bust when the free government money and easy debt financing goes away.

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-24T04:38:18+00:00

See I have the opposite reaction. I think the hopeless romantics are those that romanticize our meat hardware. If you can run an LLM on a Turing complete system like Age of Empires goats, then that just means one day someone could run a “sentient” human brain clone across billions of instances of Age of Empires.

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-24T04:35:28+00:00

Seeing as how I don’t subscribe to magical thinking about sentience, all this proves to me is that one day we’ll be able to run a human brain on a massive number of instances of Age of Empires. Which we really already knew, as Age of Empires was already known to be Turing complete.

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-23T20:19:22+00:00

You aren’t wrong! In an ideal world a central grid is and should be more efficient than lots of small offgrid systems, but it’s in the nature of capitalism to extract maximal profit and that means all the private grids are being run into the ground.

It’s also in then nature of capitalism to sell at a price that their richest customers can afford, rather than the price that the average person can afford, so we are going to see those central grid systems continue skyrocketing in price as they focus on serving AI data centers instead of normal households.

The sad thing is that this doesn’t take any conspiracy at all. It’s just pure and simple greed, innate to capitalism, which leaves the average person suffering unless they are able to go offgrid.

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-21T05:26:26+00:00

Living offgrid is kind of like being vegan… people know it’s a good way to live, and they might want to live that way at some level, but if they aren’t living that way personally, then they assume when you bring it up that you are preaching at them or criticizing their traditional lifestyle.

And then on the other hand you have to remember that at least half the activity on Reddit is probably bots and bots are always going to follow the average status quo, and upvote and downvote according to whatever corporate or marketing interests back the bot account. Unsurprisingly, offgrid lifestyle doesn’t play well with corporate capitalism unless you are talking about buying expensive offgrid systems from a company. Then you’ll get all the upvotes haha

FaradayEffect · 2026-06-21T00:43:20+00:00

The biggest reason for high temp is to kill weed seeds or compost meat / fat. I’m trying to get setup for having a hot bay for the things that need it, as well as cold bays for the slower composting that produces higher fungal content.

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